Advocacy
Half the buyback: the program's own numbers are the argument
The federal buyback declaration tally is not a footnote. It is the program's own math arguing against the program.
Advocacy
Evidence-led Canadian firearms policy analysis, calmly pro-ownership and grounded in the laws, numbers, and source documents.
Advocacy
The Army Says *Assault Rifle*
Opinion. On April 17, the Canadian Army released a promotional video for a new service rifle: the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle. Six years of civilian buyback rhetoric has rested on that word. The Army just claimed it, from the same Kitchener factory.
Advocacy
After *2020.* Canada rewrote the firearms file. The data didn't follow in a straight line.
Six years after the May 2020 prohibition, the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program has moved from politics into paperwork. The amnesty clock runs out SCC + 90-day amnesty. What the law changed is clear. What changed in public-safety terms is genuinely mixed.
Advocacy
Two decades of *lawful Canadian firearms ownership* - and a government that keeps moving the line.
Canada's licensed firearms population has grown from 1.95M to 2.4M since 2005. Every major federal restriction since 2019 has landed on the most-vetted civilians in the country. A 21-year look at who owns firearms in Canada, and how they have been treated.